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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mounting a dos partition Date: 14 Jul 1996 10:49:07 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4sajb3$th@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <4s8uug$gj7@crow.cybercomm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <4s8uug$gj7@crow.cybercomm.net>, glen <gi143@cybercomm.net> wrote: >Does anyone know how to mount a dos partition. I do not see a msdos >file system anywhere. Thank you very much. mount -t msdos /dev/xdxsx /mnt where xdxsx is the appropriate device for the DOS partition (eg wd0s1 for the first slice on an IDE disk). Warning - do *not* do this if the DOS partition was shrunk using 'fips'. This can trigger some nasty bugs in FreeBSD's DOS support which can cause filesystem corruption. A much safer way of doing this is to install the mtools package, which also allows you to use DOS-style syntax to access the partition. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/